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Wassily Leontief and Input-Output Economics Erik Dietzenbacher, Michael L. Lahr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The great difference with Leontief's model was that it could actually be populated with real-world data. And Queens College prepared me well for graduate school: I was ready for Nobel laureate Wassily Leontief. It's an extraordinary work: lucid, accessible . Significantly, the pioneer theorist and initial investigator of input-output analysis, Wassily Leontief, was a student at the University of Leningrad in the mid 1920s. Nobel laureate in economics (in 1973), who pioneered (a) sectoral analysis for General Equilibrium models, (b) the use of input-output tables, and (c) computer-based modeling. Happy Birthday Wassily Leontief (1905-1999). One of the things Robin Wells and I did when writing our principles of economics textbook was to acquire and study a copy of the original, 1948 edition of Samuelson's textbook. The IMF's Global Economy Forum Dialogo a fondo . The young Wassily Leontief, the Nobel Prize winner in economics in 1973, was attracted by the seminar of Werner Sombart and Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz at the Berlin University and defended his inaugural dissertation Die Wirtschaft .. The major contributions that led him to win Nobel Prize were his works in the development of the linear activity model of General equilibrium, and the use of input-output analysis resulting from it. The major influences one can think of are the leading structural economists of the time: Albert Hirschman, Wassily Leontief, and Hollis Chenery. Another aspect of the 1960s-style budgeting that fits the Soviet mode was input-output analysis as pioneered by Nobel-prize winning Wassily Leontief. Leontief Input-Output Model in the Real WorldIntroductionWassily Leontief s name is associated with a bad-tempered type of quantitative economics : input- output signal analysis (The New drill , Pro of Wassily Leontief . This is called input-output analysis. Professor Leontief taught me input-output analysis, a field he pioneered and nurtured. Wassily Leontief Input Output Analysis, Input Output Model Any account of Leontief as an economist must begin with his work on input-output. The fundamental mathematics and economic reasoning behind impact models are quite rigorous.